Derek Bickerton
Derek Bickerton was an American and British creolist, university teacher, writer and linguist (1926–2018). He was born at Cheshire.
Derek Bickerton in brief
- Born
- 1926
- Died
- 2018
- Known for
- creolist, university teacher, writer and linguist
- Place of birth
- Cheshire
Contents
Catalogued works
22 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1960 to 2008.
Payroll. King of the Sea. The murders of Boysie Singh, dated 1962. 25 Poems on Death and Love. Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax. In the Heart of the Country. Desert and the City. The City and the Desert. Ashley Bickerton. Kindred. More than Nature Needs. Adam's tongue. Dynamics of a creole system, dated 1975. The gold run, dated 1960. Tropicana, dated 1963. Bastard Tongues, dated 2008. Roots of language, dated 1981. Language and human behavior, dated 1995. Language & species, dated 1990. Lingua Ex Machina (Cla-de-Ma). Lingua ex Machina. The speciation of modern Homo sapiens / edited by Tim J. Crow., dated 2002, held by Wellcome Collection.
In public collections
Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.
Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.
Literature
13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.
Derek Bickerton, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 1996. Emlékezés Derek Bickertonra (1926–2018), Magyar Nyelv, 2026. Bickerton, Derek (b. 1926), Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 2006. Derek Bickerton in response to J.L. Dillard, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 1999. <span style='font-style: italic;'>La langue d'Adam</span>, Derek Bickerton, Sciences Humaines, 2014. Specters of Marx: A Review of Adam's Tongue by Derek Bickerton, Biolinguistics, 2010. More than Nature Needs. Language, Mind, and Evolution by Derek Bickerton, Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2014. Perspectives on creole language history, NWIG, 1999. Some Problems for Biolinguistics, Biolinguistics, 2014. Sistema de tiempo-modo-aspecto en criollos de base española, Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015. Book Reviews, NWIG, 1993. From Wallace’s Problem to Owen’s Solution: A Review of More than Nature Needs by Derek Bickerton, Biolinguistics, 2014. Response to Balari & Lorenzo, Biolinguistics, 2010.
Digitised editions and texts
2 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.
Tropicana (1963) — Internet Archive. Language and Species (1990) — Internet Archive.
Scholarly footprint
Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 15 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Evidence base
This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 12 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.
Chronology
- 1926Derek Bickerton born at Cheshire.
- 1962The murders of Boysie Singh.
- 1963Tropicana digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1990Language and Species digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2018Derek Bickerton died.
Sources
Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.
- 1.
“Derek Bickerton”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
Consult the source - 2.
Wikidata, structured authority record Q1200003: Derek Bickerton
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata
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Elsewhere in Books
15,964 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
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